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Negative. You need the passcode.
by FussyZeus 11y ago
Negative. You need the passcode.
- johnward 11y agoThere is no way to recover a phone if you lose the passcode?
- codezero 11y agoIf you have access to the iTunes account you can do a physical backup with iTunes and then erase and restore that backup. It won't be pin protected.
- grandalf 11y agoI believe this is to deter theft.
- johnward 11y agoI've locked out my galaxy s6 using the wrong password and it just wiped and reinstalled by itself. Then allowed me to restored everything that was on cloud backup.
- FussyZeus 11y agoNot that I know of. Like others have said you can pull a backup (but the machine backing up had to have been trusted prior or you're SOL) and then restore the phone. Nothing's bulletproof but the iPhone is the most trustworthy IMHO.
- jandrese 11y agoIf you lose the PIN on an iPhone you need to do a wipe and restore it from backup. You had better hope you remembered the backup password. You can't make a backup of a locked phone either. The backup is probably easier to attack if you have it, since it doesn't have hardware imposed timeouts on password guesses. It may not be current however.
- FussyZeus 11y agoI'm not sure the backup would be much help even if you could break into it, I believe it's encrypted with the same method used to protect the keychain and is tied to the victim's Apple ID. I attempted to help a coworker restore their device with my Mac and couldn't because my iTunes was using a different Apple ID than the device and the device's backup.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- aeonflux 11y agoNope. I've been there, did resonable research and had to start over.